The Serious Pleasures of Suspense

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The Serious Pleasures of Suspense is written by Caroline Levine and published by University of Virginia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813922178 (ISBN 10) and 9780813922171 (ISBN 13).

Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".